Inlaid wood-work



(No Model.)

A. B. CAMERON. INLAID Woon WORK. No. 454,517. Patented June 23,1891.

Q' Ao E? UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

f ALLAN B. CAMERON, OF VILLIAMSPORT, PENNSYLVANIA.

INLAlD WOOD-WORK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 454,517, dated June 23,1891.

Application filed February 4, 1891- Serial No. 380,138. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALLAN B. CAMERON, of lVilliamsport, Lycoming county,Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in InlaidVOOd-VVork, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to produce an ornamental surface of inlaidWood, which may be used for the decoration of Walls, floors, furniture,dvc.

My invention is a new article of manufacture, consisting in an open-Workgrille or lattice of Wood having its interstices filled with blocks ofWood suitably shaped to fit therein, thus forming a solid slab or panel.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l represents a grille or lattice ofWood. Fig. 2 represents said lattice with its openings or intersticesfilled with the suitably shaped blocks of wood shown in Figs. 5 and 6.Fig. 3 is a sectional vieW on the line 3 3 ot' Fig. 1, and Fig. e is asectional View on the line 4: 4 of Fig. 2.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

The grille or lattice shown in Fig. l is constructed of strips AA, whichare produced by first cross-cutting the surface of a plank or board. togive the desired configuration and then dividing said planklongitudinally. The said strips are then halved together to form thelattice.

It Will be observed that in the grille shown in Fig. l the openingsbetween the strips are of two different patterns, as indicated atB andC. A number of blocks of Wood of the form sho-Wn in Fig. 5 are preparedand inserted in the openings B, and a number of other blocks of wood ofthe form shown in Fig. 6 are prepared and inserted in the openings C.These blocks are glued in place, af ter which the surface of the panelis dressed oit" smooth. The said blocks maybe stamped out of thin boardsby dies, or they may be cut into shape by means of rotary cutterkniveshaving an edge configuration conforming to that of the openings in thegrille. The inserted blocks may be of Wood different from that of whichthe grille is made.

I claim- The method of producinga composite Wood panel or slab, whichconsists in first making a grille of wood by cross-cutting a plank orboard to a desired pattern or configuration, then dividing said plankinto strips, and then halving said strips together, and, second,inserting in the openings in said grille blocks of wood suitably shapedto fit closely therein.

ALLAN B. CAMERON.

Witnesses:

ADDISON CANDOR, HUGH GILMORE.

